Spyke
lemmy.world

Unironically yes. Gravity is the weakest of the 4 main forces.

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sh.itjust.works

I mean, yeah

The electrostatic force is why the ocean stays on the outside of the ball instead of the whole thing being consolidated into a black hole

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Fat Tonyreply
lemmy.world

instead of the whole thing being consolidated into a black hole

How does that work?

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Gravity wants to make the atoms touch and the subatomic particles touch too. ESF says nuh uh and pushes them apart, so atoms are >99% empty space. If the forces flipped the Earth would contract into a spheroid much smaller than the moon.

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You know, No Game No Life, where the guy deletes Coulomb Force at the end of the word puzzle game?

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So, Gravity is so strong it can hold down the ocean, but balloon still go up? Checkmate, Pythagoras. /s

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startrek.website

Physics teacher: "The electrical force that repels the bottom of your foot from the surface of the earth is greater than the gravitational attraction between the entire earth and yourself".

Me: 😲

Edit: I guess it's more correct to say "equal to", rather than "greater" since you're static.

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If it weren't true you would be experiencing a net acceleration due to the imbalance in the forces acting on you.

What's really interesting is figuring out WHY mechanistically it's true. I had to rethink the whole thing this morning, because it really is pretty nuts how much weaker gravity is than the electrostatic force.

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I think that I read too as being about 25% longer oo sound than in to. And because of that, it is processed as a completely separate word in my head. I never just read over a misuse of to. And it bugs me just how much I’m seeing it now.

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